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Title: Which of these will take me more lifetimes? Post by: mootinator on October 22, 2013, 10:11:19 PM Solo mining a single block on a USB Block Erupter or validating the existing blockchain on a Raspberry Pi.
Title: Re: Which of these will take me more lifetimes? Post by: fattypig on October 23, 2013, 01:00:53 PM Solo mining a single block on a USB Block Erupter or validating the existing blockchain on a Raspberry Pi. My guess would be solo mining a single block on a USB Block Erupter Title: Re: Which of these will take me more lifetimes? Post by: BobMarley on October 23, 2013, 03:11:59 PM Validating the blockchain
Title: Re: Which of these will take me more lifetimes? Post by: mootinator on October 23, 2013, 03:44:14 PM Turns out using 8.05 instead of whatever the ancient version was in the debian repo helps a lot. :-[
Title: Re: Which of these will take me more lifetimes? Post by: hulk on October 23, 2013, 03:53:02 PM My wild guess would be validating the existing blockchain on a Raspberry Pi. Do you have an answer for your question?
Title: Re: Which of these will take me more lifetimes? Post by: mootinator on October 23, 2013, 05:55:44 PM My wild guess would be validating the existing blockchain on a Raspberry Pi. Do you have an answer for your question? The pi is at block height 194657 since 12 hours ago, is doing about 1 block/second now and has processed about 2.5GB. It should finish in about 43 hours at the current rate. It seemed to slow down a lot around block height 130000 with the old version. So, I'm going to go with mining a block being likely to take longer by a few orders of magnitude =) |